Mithun A. Sridharan

I'm Mithun A. Sridharan, Founder of this website - Think Insights - on Strategy, Management Consulting, Leadership, Digital Transformation, and Data Literacy. Follow me on social media or connect with me on LinkedIn for updates.
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Articles by Mithun A. Sridharan

Reading CEO Surveys Well

CEO surveys blend market intelligence, marketing strategy and survey craft worth studying.

Life After Consulting

Five recruiter postings show where ex-consultants land, and what to ask first.

TOM vs Future Org Chart

Structural reorganization fails when leaders ignore the functional systems that drive actual business performance.

The Difficult Shareholder Conversation

How leaders can talk to shareholders who want faster results without abandoning longer-term strategy

Building a Thought-Leadership OS

Systems for credible, contrarian, evidence-backed ideas

How Crowdfunding Changed Who Gets Funded

Crowdfunding democratized access to early-stage capital, letting ordinary backers fund new ideas directly.

Communicating Pricing and Tradeoffs

Why pricing communication fails when leaders treat price as a messaging problem instead of a value-and-tradeoff explanation problem

What Poker Teaches About Business

Poker offers surprisingly durable lessons about negotiation, risk management, and reading other people.

Decision Memos for Modern Boards

Why board-facing writing now needs to be faster, clearer and more structurally rigorous than traditional executive memos

Coding Confidence Into Presence

Confidence becomes reliable when it is treated as a design challenge, not an emotion. Leaders can engineer steadier presence by building systems that support judgment under pressure

Communicating No More Initiatives

How leaders can explain stopping projects and limiting new initiatives without sounding like they are giving up on ambition

The Scale of US Military Spending

US military spending has long exceeded the next several countries combined.

Reading CEO Surveys Well

CEO surveys blend market intelligence, marketing strategy and survey craft worth studying.

Life After Consulting

Five recruiter postings show where ex-consultants land, and what to ask first.

TOM vs Future Org Chart

Structural reorganization fails when leaders ignore the functional systems that drive actual business performance.

The Difficult Shareholder Conversation

How leaders can talk to shareholders who want faster results without abandoning longer-term strategy

Building a Thought-Leadership OS

Systems for credible, contrarian, evidence-backed ideas

How Crowdfunding Changed Who Gets Funded

Crowdfunding democratized access to early-stage capital, letting ordinary backers fund new ideas directly.

Communicating Pricing and Tradeoffs

Why pricing communication fails when leaders treat price as a messaging problem instead of a value-and-tradeoff explanation problem

What Poker Teaches About Business

Poker offers surprisingly durable lessons about negotiation, risk management, and reading other people.

Decision Memos for Modern Boards

Why board-facing writing now needs to be faster, clearer and more structurally rigorous than traditional executive memos

Coding Confidence Into Presence

Confidence becomes reliable when it is treated as a design challenge, not an emotion. Leaders can engineer steadier presence by building systems that support judgment under pressure

Communicating No More Initiatives

How leaders can explain stopping projects and limiting new initiatives without sounding like they are giving up on ambition

The Scale of US Military Spending

US military spending has long exceeded the next several countries combined.